Title & Author:

Paths to prison : on the architectures of carcerality / edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt ; contributions by Dylan Rodríguez ... [and eleven others].

Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2020.
New York, NY : Distributed by Columbia University Press
©2020

Description:

526 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.

Series:

Columbia books on architecture and the city

Notes:
Visual works by Sable Elyse Smith appear throughout.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-526).
Extended Stay: i.e. "The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same" / Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt -- Carceral Architectures of of Policing: From "Mass Incarceration" to Domestic Warfare / Dylan Rodríguez -- Working to Get Free at the Rent Party / Adrienne Brown -- Brush Mountain and the Architecture of Carceral Extraction / James Graham -- Fire Camp, Highway, Coal Mine: Geographies of the Carceral Quotidian / Brett Story -- Processing Power: Archives, Prisons, and the Ethnography of Exchange / Jarrett M. Drake -- "Nothing Stirred in the Air": Affect, Sexuality, and the Architectural Terror of the Racial State / Stephen Dillon -- Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines / Anne Spice -- Zeroes and Ones: Carceral Life in the Data World / Wendy L. Wright -- Design of the Self and the Racial Order / Mabel O. Wilson -- Backward to Wayward: Listening to Archives of Disciplinary Education in Philadelphia / Leslie Lodwick -- No Place Like Home: Practicing Freedom in the Loopholes of Captivity / Jasmine Syedullah

Summary:

As Angela Y. Davis has proposed, the "path to prison," which so disproportionately affects communities of color, is most acutely guided by the conditions of daily life. Architecture, then, as fundamental to shaping these conditions of civil existence, must be interrogated for its involvement along this diffuse and mobile path. Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The collected essays in this book implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the United States--and follow the premise that to understand how the prison enacts its violence in the present one must shift the epistemological frame elsewhere: to places, discourses, and narratives assumed to be outside of the sphere of incarceration. Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality offers not a fixed or inexorable account of how things are but rather a set of starting points and methodologies for reevaluating the architecture of carceral society and for undoing it altogether. With contributions by Adrienne Brown, Stephen Dillon, Jarrett M. Drake, Sable Elyse Smith, James Graham, Leslie Lodwick, Dylan Rodriguez, Anne Spice, Brett Story, Jasmine Syedullah, Mabel O. Wilson, and Wendy L. Wright

ISBN:

9781941332665 (paperback)
1941332668 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture and society United States.
Prison-industrial complex United States.
Prisons Design and construction.
Racism United States.
Architecture et société États-Unis.
Complexe industriel carcéral États-Unis.
Prisons Conception et construction.
Racisme États-Unis.
Architecture and society.
Prison-industrial complex.
Racism.
United States.

Added entries:

Kirkham-Lewitt, Isabelle, editor.
Smith, Sable Elyse, artist.
Columbia books on architecture and the city.

On the architectures of carcerality

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309277
Call No.: BIB 254546
Status: External loan